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Gödel, Escher, Bach

Douglas R. Hofstadter

1979

New York

First American edition cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R. Hofstadter. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. First American edition cover, 1979.

"by moving upwards (or downwards) through the levels of some hierarchical system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started"